I like urban centers even when they’re relatively devoid of nature. What I don’t like is when nature is pointlessly absent. A bunch of tall buildings providing living, working and recreational space efficiently to lots of people? Excellent. Asphalt to the horizon so that people can drive to Walmart and then drive to Applebee’s? Soul-crushing.

Minorities are tolerated as a curiosity until they start getting ideas about having rights. See also: gay people and free black people in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Electric vehicles have power to spare. What they lack is energy (and therefore range).